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It tracks that writer-director Nicole Holofcener would devote an entire movie to the queasily uncomfortable limits of honesty in relationships, given how her work, from Walking and Talking to Friends with Money, has always traded on her ability to be unblinkingly frank about how we treat one another. How honest should we be to those we care about if we know our answers will hurt them? Is lying to protect feelings ultimately a sign of real love or is it the opposite, allowing someone to develop a false idea of who they are…

Scientists have discovered a nerve pathway in mice that is involved in the processing of rewarding and distressing stimuli and situations. This pathway, called the median raphe nucleus, is located in the brain stem and acts in opposition to a previously identified pathway called the dorsal raphe nucleus. The discovery of this pathway could lead to the development of new drug treatments for mental disorders such as addiction and depression.New insights into the opposing actions of serotonin-producing nerve fibers in mice…

The films of Catalan writer-director Carla Simón could almost – almost – serve as tourist ads for the life bucolic. In her 2017 debut, Summer 1993, a young girl discovers the countryside for the first time, while her follow-up, Alcarràs – which won the Golden Bear, the top prize at the 2022 Berlin film festival – is set on a peach farm, where children run wild between multigenerational family meals in the sun. Yet, joyous as Simón’s two features are, they are built on a hard foundation of bitter reality. In Alcarràs, a…

Balkan nation bids farewell to its kuna currency and becomes 20th member of the eurozone. "We will cry for our kuna, prices will soar," says Drazen Golemac, a 63-year-old pensioner from Zagreb. (AFP Archive)…

Sequels and franchises have become the norm in Hollywood. In recent years, both established and up-and-coming directors have been cranking blockbuster sequel after sequel. Knives Out director Rian Johnson joined the ranks by helming the polarizing Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Now, he’s back with another sequel – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story. Of course, like the first Knives Out movie, the film isn’t your typical sequel. Despite having two sequels under his belt, Johnson has strong feelings about making such movies n…

Pete Davidson Is Disappointed With Emily Ratajkowski(Photo Credit –Instagram) Emily Ratajkowski is hitting the headlines after going on a few dates with the DJ Orazio Rispo. And as per reports, Pete Davidson is not quite happy about the news. Just a few days back, there were reports suggesting that the alleged couple is getting pretty serious about each other. Now, can this news break their bond and make them apart? Scroll below to find out how Pete is feeling about all this! On one hand, Emily got out of a marriage…

We all know the drill by now. You want to be the very best, like no one ever was, so you set out on a cross-country journey to catch and train adorable monsters and rise to the ranks of Pokemon Master. It's a tale as old as time, or at least as old as 1996, and Pokemon games rarely venture outside this comfortable template. That made it all the more surprising when Pokemon Scarlet made me actually care and look forward to two of its three main story paths.Spoilers follow.…

We've all done it – you're walking around going about your business and suddenly you're thinking about that time in high school you said something really stupid you would never say now.Or that time a few years ago when you made a social gaffe.You cringe and just want to die of shame.Why do these negative memories seem to just pop into our heads? And why do we feel so embarrassed still, when the occasion is long past?How do memories come into our awareness?The current thinking is there are two ways in which we recall…

Credit: Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Zachary Neal and Jennifer Watling Neal The aphorism "birds of a feather flock together" describes the fact that people tend to prefer associating with others who are similar to themselves. The phenomenon goes by different names: Sociologists call it homophily, psychologists call it in-group favoritism and political scientists call it affective polarization. It's observed in a…

Overwatch 2 gets into the Halloween spirit Halloween is indisputably the best holiday of the year, so naturally, the spookily-themed events in live service games are something I look forward to every October. Overwatch has always had the best one in my opinion, with Junkenstein’s Revenge (and its annual iterations) being a welcome, stylish PvE switch up to the usual competitive multiplayer formula. I remember when the original Halloween event dropped in Overwatch, and from what I can recall it was the first event of its…